http://mises.org/Community/blogs/jimmy/archive/2009/01/06/standing-in-buckets.aspxGovernment taxes mean that individuals and corporations only keep a certain portion of their gains whilst at the same time they realize 100% of their losses. As Hazlitt put it in Economics in One Lesson : &quot;When a corporation loses 100 cents of everyenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/Community/blogs/jimmy/archive/2009/01/06/standing-in-buckets.aspx#77092Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:38:01 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:77092Robert Fredericks<p>&quot;...or even better, come up with a fantastically complex system to achieve the same thing indirectly, with vastly more effort and at a vastly greater cost&quot;</p> <p>Fantastic indeed!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=77092" width="1" height="1">